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Drama, Family Drama, drama film
The film opens with Nina Eberlin, the fourth in a family of six children, going to visit her divorced parents. Looking at some old photographs, she begins to tell the story of how her parents, Lainey and David, learned that her younger brother Randall had autism, and how the stress that this placed on them eventually lead to the breakdown of their marriage.
Drama, drama film
As a young man, Emile went to England on a university scholarship, leaving behind his brutal older brother Carl and his creative younger brother Freddy to run the family farm in Saskatchewan. Despite promising Freddy that he would return, Emile stayed in England and became an academic, turning his back on his Canadian past and even acquiring an English accent, while his brothers died one after the other in tragic circumstances: Freddy gassing himself with exhaust fumes in his pick-up; Carl dying in a crash in the same pick-up. On his brief return (presumably for Carl's funeral) the authorities think he is there to adopt Carl's young…
Drama, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Adventure, Drama, drama film
The film follows a ten-year-old boy with terminal cancer who is fascinated by butterflies. His final wish is to find the rare blue morpho butterfly, which lives in tropical rainforests. After his mother persuades an entomologist to help, the boy sets off for the rainforest in search of the rare butterfly.
comedy film
Somewhere in Beverly Hills, in the house of Jack Benny (a sign out front proclaims, "Star of Stage * Screen * Radio * Television...also cartoons"), a mouse version of Jack is practicing his violin—off-key—and saying to himself, "Who is this guy Isaac Stern?" (In real life Benny and Stern were good friends.) Outside Jack's mouse hole, a cat is lying in wait, wearing ear muffs to filter out the discordant sound of Jack's violin. Jack calls his servant, Rochester (portrayed as a dark brown mouse) to get his white suit, which Rochester is wearing at the time. Jack tells the valet that his rental period is up (a week for $5.00, equal to $…
The film is an updated adaptation of the 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain set in Southern California beach culture, featuring a prince and, instead of a pauper, the skateboarding surfer Cash, who wants to be rich and escape his boring life. The Queen of Gelfland brings her son, prince Edward, to the United States, seeking a trade treaty; the young prince wants to escape his life, to spend time among the common people. During Edward's one permitted limousine ride near the beach, Cash skitches with the limo on its way back to the hotel, and meets Edward in his suite; the two hatch their plan to trade places, and separate.
Family Comedy, Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film
Laura, Karl's wife, accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction, an invisibility potion.
Komödie, comedy film
Oliver Quackenbush, Molly McCarthy and her brother Slats who acts as her publicity agent work for the Miramar Ballroom as taxi dancers. Slats plants a phony article in the local newspaper that declares Molly's ambition is to attend Bixby College. The dean of Bixby reads the article and offers her a scholarship.
Adventure, Family Comedy, Komödie, adventure film, science fiction film
While on summer vacation in Cedar Lake, California with their older brother, Peter; their dog, Max; and their widowed mother, Carolyn; Payton Shoemaker and his little sister Maggie engage in an adventure to save (and secretly befriend) a young male bigfoot which they name him Bilbo (after Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit) and his injured mother (who gets shot in her kneecap prior to the opening of the film by the hunters) from a logging company who is illegally hunting them down.
Komödie, comedy film, crime film, musical film
Two sidewalk photographers, Tubby McCoy and Flash Fulton, aspire to work for the local newspaper. Their childhood friend, Dr. Bill Burns, invites them to come along on a call to a building fire.
Christmas film, Social Drama
Frank Diaz, an unemployed boxer, and his family have been living in a homeless shelter for months when, finally, on Christmas Eve, comes word that an apartment may be available. However seeing that he doesn't hold a job "on the books" the social worker tells him it's not possible for him to get the apartment. Frank, at his wit's end, tells a story about his time in the army during the first Gulf War.
Komödie, comedy film, drama film
Priam Farll is a famous English painter and recluse who has been living in seclusion somewhere in the tropics for 25 years with solely his valet, Henry Leek, for company. In 1905, Farll reluctantly travels to London to be knighted. However, upon their arrival, Leek becomes very ill.
Tragic Comedy Film, musical film
A young mid-nineteenth century street entertainer, Sylvia, is separated from her pickpocket grandfather when given a home by a wealthy New York City widow. Her grandfather, The Professor, has wrangled an invitation for Sylvia and her young friends to entertain at a lavish mansion party. But when Sylvia discovers The Professor has stolen a cuckoo clock from the house, she returns it the next day.
Action, martial arts film, thriller film
John Nguyen is a veteran suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Despite his status as a war hero, he has difficulty adjusting to civilian life. When he hears a woman scream, he investigates and gets into a fight with several Aryan Nation thugs who are hassling Tanya, a prostitute in the service of local crime boss Hollis.
Komödie, comedy film
After serving in Europe during World War II, Herbie Brown and Slicker Smith return to the United States aboard a troop ship. Also on board is their old nemesis, Sgt. Collins.
Drama, Family Drama
After the passing of their mother three years prior, Ben and Emily have driven their father David crazy by driving away 20 nannies with sabotaged appliances and Ben's pet rat in the clothes. The film shows a life of a young girl, Kate, who looks after her dad. She is looking for work and Beverly Hills offers her a job as a nanny for David’s family.
comedy film
The film focuses on a blue-collar family who wins the lottery. Their lives are changed forever, sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad.
comedy film
A highly intelligent teenager with goes to college at an early age, becomes is roommates with a popular jock, and must adjust to adult and college life.
Family Drama, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film
Laurel has a budding romance with Jake, the seemingly perfect man. Susan struggling in a rocky marriage to Johnny. As the women meet in swimming lessons and bond over their relationships, they end up having more in common than what appears--including the same man.
Family Drama, Natural Disaster, disaster film
After a magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes New York City, cop John Ryker, searches for his wife Laura and his two children, Andrew and Carla, in the rubble, while also hunting a serial killer.
Drama, drama film
Crime, Family Drama
A crime thriller and family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty, where music, love, hope and tragedy collide.
Action, Thriller, action film
After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow feds Jimmy (William Steis) and Gene (Michael Gregory) as they transport Mafia boss Raymond Manta (Titus Welliver) out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas (Robert Patrick) becomes an unwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. The White Hand lies to Jeff and says that his family is being held hostage and he has to help them smuggle a huge drug shipment to get them released unharmed, Jeff is forced to turn one-time courier for the White Hand, whose leaders are Manta and four others—Helmut Vitch (Mick Fleetwood), Milt Kowalski (Miles O'Keeffe), Russ LaFleur (Jeffrey…
Ghost-Movie, Horror, Monster Film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, ghost film, horror film
Ben (Sid Caesar) and Kate Powell (Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea. There, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) cops the blame for mayhem caused by the pranks of three mischievous ghosts. Soon after their arrival, a series of strange and increasingly destructive occurrences begin to happen.